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trained radiologists who blindly followed misinterpretations of of their scientific curiosity). This situation is relevant to the study formally untrained Caffey. Moreover, Silverman (1965) attested of subdural and retinal haemorrhages of SBS. to Caffey's closemindedness when he wrote about Caffey: "A Sparacio et al. (1971) described acute subdural haematoma in assic example of his attitude...occurred at the end of a hot dis- infancy. They described six cases in infants aged three months, cussion at an 11 o'clock conference at Babies Hospital...when he 10 months, one year, 10 months, six months and nine months, of was heard to remark to someone with whom he had been debating which two had a documented fall while the rest did not. a point, 'I wouldn't believe it even if you proved it to me’." Hart and Earle (1975) described haemorrhagic and perivenous Hiller (1972), a formally trained Australian radiologist, demon- encephalitis in a clinical-pathological review of 38 cases. They strated that Caffey's bizarre fractures are in fact caused by scurvy, wrote that haemorrhagic leucoencephalitis (AHL) and post- although he did not explain what actually caused scurvy in the infectious perivenous encephalitis (PVS) associated with affected babies. childhood mumps, measles, chickenpox and vaccination are It was Hess (1920) who pointed out in his elegant, almost 300- important diseases of the central nervous system. page tome on scurvy, which was much ahead of its time, the inad- Graham et al. (1979) described acute haemorrhagic (also known equacies of "antiscorbutic" vitamin (vitamin C) content of the as necrotising) leucoencephalitis as a complication of the gener- usual infant food. alised Schwartzman reaction which may Later on, Pekarek and Rezabek (1959) occur after sensitisation (anaphylaxis) to demonstrated that the administration of DPT drugs, such ulphonamides and para- vaccine to rats caused them to develop acute amino salicylic acid, and which has also fol- scurvy which rectified itself within 24 hours. . . . lowed pertussis vaccination and the adminis- However, human babies do not have the Injecting foreign tration of the antitetanus serum. advantage the rats have of being able to pro- 7 Levin et al. (1983) described haemorrhagic duce their own vitamin C within their bodies: antigens (and other shock and encephalopathy as a new humans and other primates, fruit ats and proteins) directly into synrome wit al ish mora young guineapigs, to mention the most important children. Interestingly, the children from examples, do not produce their own vitamin the bloodstream causes whom polio virus was isolated had all been C and depend on their food having adequate immunological recently vaccinated. This means that other content of this important, essential vitamin. cases could have been vaccinated longer than When human babies are given the same derangements— a few days before developing symptoms of DPT vaccine as Pekarek and Rezabek's rats, among others, the haemorrhagic shock. In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of authors escribed so-called haemophagocytic syndrome or lym- phohistiocytosis syndrome. The symp- toms in haemorrhagic shock and encephalopathy and HLH are very sim- ilar: general feeling of malaise, fever, listlessness and vomiting, pallor, tachy- cardia, tachypnoea, convulsions, low blood pressure, glove and sock syn- drome (hot body and cold extremities), distended abdomen, enlarged liver, tense fontanelle, hypotonia, watery, they develop acute scurvy which does not rectify itself unless the babies are given sufficiently large amounts of vita- min C. This, of course, never happens cause when babies with vaccine reac- tions are admitted to hospitals they are given antibiotics instead, further aggra- vating their vitamin C deficiency. Scurvy affects all systems in the ody. It causes depletion of collagen, resulting in vascular wall fragility, lood clotting and other haematological derangements resulting in bruising; it causes brain, retinal and other organ blood-stained diarrhoea, haematemesis, leeding and many other malfunctions liquid unclotting blood (bleeding from of all systems of the body, including derangement of the central venipuncture sites), deranged coagulation with deranged pro- control of temperature, blood pressure, etc. thrombin and thromboplastin time, very low fibrinogen and fibrin Injecting foreign antigens (and other proteins) directly into the degradation products very elevated, indicating severe disseminat- loodstream causes immunological derangements—among others, ed intravascular coagulation. Other characteristic findings are reversal of T4 and T8 cells ratio, which can result in a cascade of untoward events resulting in death. the reversal of T4 and T8 cells ratio (Jefferys, 2001), which severe metabolic acidosis (pH less than 7.35 or even less than 7), results in the whole cascade of untoward events resulting in death. low bicarbonate, base deficit with compensatory respiratory alka- Iam surprised that any babies survive the intense vaccination pro- losis, impaired renal function, raised plasma urea and creatinine grams they are subjected to these days. Others have mentioned and especially hyperglycaemia, indicating central diabetes haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) as the syndrome insipidus, cerebral oedema and internal haemorrhaging into the which is accompanied by the same symptoms as SBS, without brain, retina, lungs and other organs, and diffuse macular cuta- going into details as to what actually causes HLH. neous haemorrhages. All organs may be infiltrated with lympho- cytes and histiocytes. At necropsy, the brain is oedematous, soft New diseases for old and virtually liquid. More severe cases have meningeal and Medicine is known for repeatedly introducing new names for perivascular infiltration of lymphoid cells in the brain. old diseases. It is probably due to the well-known failure of med- Akima and Sumi (1984) described a number of cases of babies ical researchers to study medical literature (yes, I've heard aged six months, four months, four-and-a-half months (readmitted American medicos bragging in court that they don't study "that at six-and-a-half months and died 11 days after admission), five stuff", meaning medical research, and in particular the foreign months (readmitted at eight months and died two months later), journals; as a matter of interest, they considered BMJ not worthy six weeks of age with recurrence of symptoms at four-and-a-half Injecting foreign antigens (and other proteins) directly into the bloodstream causes immunological derangements— among others, the reversal of T4 and T8 New diseases for old Medicine is known for repeatedly introducing new names for old diseases. It is probably due to the well-known failure of med- ical researchers to study medical literature (yes, I've heard American medicos bragging in court that they don't study "that stuff", meaning medical research, and in particular the foreign journals; as a matter of interest, they considered BMJ not worthy NEXUS = 33 cells ratio, which can result in a cascade of untoward events resulting in death. OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com